2. Verb. (present participle of squawk) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Squawking
1. squawk [v] - See also: squawk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squawking
Literary usage of Squawking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The girl's own book by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1856)
"The next is, " Three squawking wild geese, two ducks, and a good fat hen."
After this has gone round as before, the leader says, " Four plump partridges, ..."
2. Birds of North America by Jim Roetzel (2007)
"... squawking hark, blue- gray plumage, and yellow crown, this heron beckons a mate.
It breeds along wooded wetlands from Connecticut to the ..."
3. The American Girl's Book, Enlarged: Including the American Girl's Book, by by Eliza Leslie (1857)
"The next is, " Three squawking wild geese, two ducks and a good fat hen."
After this has gone round as before, the leader says, " Four plump partridges, ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"Speckle-feather, squawking fool ? ' Is your squawking sass ? or arc you 'feard
of шс, say ! How do you s'poee a feller can read or rite, ..."
5. A Manual of the Short Story Art by Glenn Clark (1922)
"Confusing: He turned and fled from the crowd, squalling and squawking. (He or
the crowd were squalling and squawking?) Clear: Squalling and squawking, ..."
6. A Manual of the Short Story Art by Glenn Clark (1922)
"(He or the crowd were squalling and squawking?) Clear: Squalling and squawking,
he fled from the crowd. Confusing: He hardly spoke to me hurrying down town. ..."
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